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Democracy is that form of soci...

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

James Lowell 598 quotes

To be young is surely the best...

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

James Lowell 598 quotes

A word once vulgarized can nev...

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The nunneries of silent nooks,...

The nunneries of silent nooks, the murmured longing of the wood.

James Lowell 598 quotes

A stray hair, by its continued...

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

James Lowell 598 quotes

I would hardly change the sorr...

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Men's thoughts and opinions ar...

Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The material of thought re-act...

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Through aisles of long-drawn c...

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

James Lowell 598 quotes

God is the only being who has ...

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Time is, after all, the greate...

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

James Lowell 598 quotes

There is only one thing better...

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

James Lowell 598 quotes

With every step of the recent ...

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

James Lowell 598 quotes

All birds during the pairing s...

All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The stiff rails were softened ...

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Old gold has a civilizing virt...

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The purely Great
Whose so...

The purely Great
Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,
Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.

James Lowell 598 quotes

The greater your real strength...

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Truth only needs to be for onc...

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

James Lowell 598 quotes

Truth always has a bewitching ...

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

James Lowell 598 quotes

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